timtyler comments on Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Ask Your Questions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 22 November 2009 11:45:12AM -1 points [-]

Re: Why should we expect a formal computer that recursively self improves to reach some greater heights?

Google has already self-improved to much greater heights. Evolution apparently favours intelligence - and Google has substantial resources, isn't constrained by the human birth canal, and can be easily engineered.